WHEAT
What does "WHEAT" mean?
A cereal grain that is a worldwide staple, ground into flour for bread.
Meanings
- A cereal plant of the genus Triticum, or its grain, milled into flour. Fields of golden wheat rippled in the wind.
- A pale yellowish-brown color, like ripe grain. She chose a wheat-colored linen for the curtains.
Did you know?
- Wheat supplies roughly a fifth of all the calories humanity eats, making this single grass one of the pillars holding up the human diet.
- 'Wheat' and 'white' grew from the same ancient root - the grain was named for the pale flour it gives, not for the gold of its field.
Word origin
From Old English 'hwǣte', from a Germanic root linked to 'hwīt' (white), referring to the pale flour the grain yields.
Remember it
WHEAT = 'W' for the waving field, and it shares its first sound with 'white,' the flour it becomes.
A little poem
A whole field bows once
when the wind walks through it - then
stands gold, and bows again.
haiku
Wordplay
- Why did the baker only trust the best grain? Because he liked to separate the wheat from the chaff before anyone got cross.
What it teaches
The plainest grain feeds the most mouths; staying useful outlasts standing out.
Quick facts
What does WHEAT mean?
A cereal grain that is a worldwide staple, ground into flour for bread.
Is WHEAT a valid word?
Yes — WHEAT is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is WHEAT?
WHEAT has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does WHEAT come from?
From Old English 'hwǣte', from a Germanic root linked to 'hwīt' (white), referring to the pale flour the grain yields.
What can WHEAT teach us?
The plainest grain feeds the most mouths; staying useful outlasts standing out.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.